Who Are The Deep Ones?? || Game of Thrones Explained

In this video we delve into one of the lesser known yet very important mysteries of the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, the Deep ones!

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Intro: 00:00-00:58
The Origins of The Deep Ones: 00:59-02:40
Physical Appereance: 02:41-03:55
Evidence of Existence: 03:56-05:06
Connection to Other Myths: 05:07-07:10
Fan Theories and Outro: 07:11-12:20

[lhadzyan]

That oily blacstone happens in a lot of ancient eerie-foreboding dark-mysterious places in the world as the cursed city of Yeen in Sothoryos, the giant Toad statue at the Toad Island, Asshai on the Shadowlands [and likely Stygai too] and well, maybe K´Dath in the Grey Cold Desert too.

[bierwolf]

lmao, took some time finding this again, but since I'm no longer suspended, I can finally comment. First things first, nice video overall. Leviathans are simply big whales though, as is often said. The base of the Hightower and the ruins of Valyria are not oily black stone - they're fused black stone. This is an important distinction as fused black stone is manmade in any case, fused together most likely by dragonfire, hence its prevalence in the territory of the former Valyrian Freehold. The Hightower's base however is not Valyrian, as we're quite plainly told, but fortunately, we know of another society that must have employed dragons in construction: the Yi Ti with their giant Five Forts guarding their northern border. Yi Ti has the distinction of being one of if not the eldest civilization in the ASOIAF universe. Instead, oily black stone is described as appearing in Yeen, a city in Sothoryos, on Toad Isle and of course the ruined city of Asshai. There are likely more places with oily black stone. Further, many people would equate the Deep Ones with the Squishers talked about on Cracklaw Point, a large peninsula in the Crownlands, close to Driftmark. Dick Crabb speaks of them and though them, we have even a visual describtion. Tied in here are then the Sistermen, inhabitants of a collection of three islands in the Bite, the stretch of sea in between the Vale and the North. The Sistermen often have "the mark", which is webbing of the hands and feet, a trait shared and likely inherited through interbreeding with the Squishers/ Deep Ones. The people of Toad Isle and the Thousands Isles are described similarly. The Thousand Isles are a collection of islands off the northern coast of Essos, far to the east, by the lands of the N'ghai. It is alleged that the inhabitants of these islands fear the water and hence never go into it nor use ships, yet worship fish-like gods and sacrifice sailors that venture into their territory to these gods. It is also said these islands are the remnants of a drowned kingdom. This is all to say: the existence of Deep Ones/ Squishers is pretty much confirmed. Their connection to the Drowned God is also solid enough. As for Euron: I do not think that he is an agent of the Deep Ones or the Drowned God, though my own theories surrounding this are of course even more kooky. Euron is about to attack Oldtown, where the already mentionend Hightower is located. So, who built the base of the Hightower and for what purpose? It's made of fused black stone, yet described distinctly as not fitting with the Valyrian style. Some allege a connection the "Mazemakers" of Lorath due to it being labyrinthene. Interestingly enough, the Mazemakers are said to have been exterminated by the Deep Ones and might have - if not being outright giants - much larger than normal men. However, their mazes are described to be made from carved stone, not fused, so they're likely not the ones that built the fortress in Oldtown. We also know that neither First Men nor Andals had the means of producing fused stone. However, we know the Yi Tiish do, thanks to the Five Forts. That's the "who" answered, leaving us with the "why". The Yi Tiish are tied with the (First) Long Night, said to have been caused by the Bloodstone Emperor after acquiring a "fallen black stone". We know that the Long Night ended and the Bloodstone Emperor was defeated, but what become of this mythical stone? Whoever defeated the BE likely wanted to prevent another LN by hiding the fallen black stone and what better place than on virtually the other end of the world in a labyrinth? I think it very plausible that the fortress on Battle Isle was built by the Yi Ti to house this fallen black stone. If Euron wants chaos, what better way to achieve that then retrieve this stone - from a city we know he intends to attack. The Hightowers themselves are an interesting bunch, one of the oldest houses around and the current Lord of Oldtown - Leyton Hightower - is said to have become a recluse, locked up in his tower with his daughter, the mad maid Malora, for a decade now, allegedly reading into the occult, about magic and "Might be he'll raise an army from the deeps". What is the fallen black stone? We know it was used to cause the LN, that it belonged to the BE and that it's central to the church of starry wisdom, founded by the BE. The church of starry wisdom with the stone are a direct nod towards Lovecraft. The eponymous church of starry wisdom worships Nyarlathotep - one of the Outer Gods and far more powerful than the Great Old Ones - and the stone is the Shining Trapezohedron, used to summon Nyarlathotep. The Shining Trapezohedron specifically is from Yuggoth, which is thought to be the same as Pluto. We'll now be entering total schizo territory: tied to the first LN is also the figure of Azor Ahai, generally thought to be the one who ended it. It is said that to this end, he forged a weapon called Lightbringer, with which he pierced the heart of his wife, Nissa Nissa, causing her to let out a cry of pain so reverberating that it cracked the/ a moon. In Qaarth it is believed that dragons came from a second moon, which cracked and released them. I suggest that Lightbringer is actually a dragon horn, like Euron's Dragonbinder. The sound it makes is described as "the wail of a thousand souls" with the unfortunate effect of killing whoever blows it, but it's said to call and bind dragons. If Nissa Nissa cracked the moon and from there sprang dragons, what does that describe but a dragon horn? So, I suggest that the (original; it's going to get weirder) dragons came to earth (ASOIAF is on future earth, deal with it) from the second moon along with the fallen black stone, which is the Shining Trapezohedron, making this second moon Yuggoth and thus Pluto. The original dragons are thus either Shantaks and/ or Byakhee and prefer to live in the shadows (Asshai in the shadowlands is said to be home to dragons still). The dragons we encounter in the story are not original dragons, as Barth's writings indicate that they're the product of experimentation with blood magic, fusing wyverns with firewyrms and actually humans. Wyverns are likely Shantaks, while firewyrms clearly denote the Cthonians, which are a race of large subterranean beings, white and burrowing, they're also the "roots" of the weirwood trees and what the CotF actually worship. Cthonians are specifically known to be able to communicate telepathically (weirwood hivemind; greenseers), endure extreme heat and cause earthquakes (the whole "breaking of the Arm" during the wars of the First Men and CotF, the drowning of the Neck, etc). That was quite a tangent, let's go back to the Deep Ones and the Drowned God, who is obviously Cthulhu and his often named nemesis, the Storm God, is Hastur, who is also variably named such things as the Lion of the Night. The LN was a fight in between Hastur and Cthulhu (plus their various servitors; Byakhee are specifically the servitors of Hastur, while the Deep Ones serve Cthulhu), both awakend by Nyarlathotep through the BE with the Shining Trapezohedron. Btw, Hastur sleeps in the "Hidden Sea", east of Yi Ti, by his city of Carcosa. This is one of the dichtomies and so far doesn't even touch the Others who loom beyond the Wall. The Others serve their god, the god of Winter, who is entombed where he fell in the first LN - at Winterfell. The crypts of Winterfell are uniquely built so that they're filled from the bottom upwards with all the Starks there to guard the god of winter, buried at very bottom past the collapsed section. The name of the god of winter is Ithaqua, known also by the names of Death-Walker, God of the Cold, The White Silence, etc. Ithaqua is further the son of the Storm God, Hastur, the Lion of the Night and Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a thousand young, also known as the black goat of Qohor (note the very ominous forest east of Qohor, which is said to have claimed an entire army raised after the doom of Valyria in an attempt to restore the Freehold) as well as the Maiden-made-of-Light.

[ibrahimatilla]

I thought Euron was serving the 3-eyed raven, willingly or otherwise, did he not put priests of the ''drowned god'' in the mast of his ship? Now he's working for the deep ones?

[ibrahimatilla]

Wait I am confused, do these guys pre-date the white walkers? Do they both serve the same god, the great other?